Plant Prunus cerasus (Rosaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Sour Cherry

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
LACTIC-ACID	8	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCINE	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LEUCOCYANIDIN	1	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINALOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Fruit	460.0	3312.0	-0.31	Duke, 1992 *
LINOLEIC-ACID	27	Seed	127200.0	169600.0	0.54	Duke, 1992 *
MAGNESIUM	65	Fruit	90.0	648.0	-0.69	Duke, 1992 *
MALEIC-ACID	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MALIC-ACID	15	Fruit Juice	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MANGANESE	14	Fruit	1.0	8.0	-0.35	Duke, 1992 *
MANNITOL	18	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MESOCYANIN	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
METHYL-SALICYLATE	21	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Fruit	20.0	144.0	-0.26	Duke, 1992 *
MYRISTIC-ACID	6	Seed	600.0	800.0	-0.29	Duke, 1992 *
NARINGENIN	56	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NEO-CHLOROGENIC-ACID	2	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
NIACIN	39	Fruit	4.0	32.0	-0.38	Duke, 1992 *
O-CRESOL	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
OCTANOIC-ACID	5	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antihyperammonemic	1	Martindale's 29th
Antihypercholesterolemic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 6: 189.
Antihyperglycemic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkeratotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperkinetic	2	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antihyperlipidemic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperlipoproteinaemic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antihypertensive	12	Duke, 1992 *
Antihyperthyroid	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antihypoglycemic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiichythyotic	1	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Antiielus?	1	Martindale's 29th
Antiimplantation	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiimpotence	2	Martindale's 29th
Antiinfarctal	1	Soumyanath, A. Ed. 2006. Traditional Medicines for Modern Times - Antidiabetic Plants. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. Boca Raton, FL. 314 pp.
Antiinfective	1	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinfertility	4	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiinflammatory	32	Duke, 1992 *
Antiinsomniac	3	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiinsomniac?	1	Martindale's 29th